On first pass, the cartoon poses Israel, or Israeli held territory, as a death camp for Palestinians (and equates Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazi's treatment of the Jews). The rendering, however, can also been seen as more ambiguous than that, making other interpretations possible.
Continue ReadingAlthough subtle in one way (if you didn't know the relationship between Rumsfeld replacement, Robert Gates and Poppy Bush), it is also is a sly visual editorial on (and slap at) the present Bush regime.... The likely choice was a shot of the Oval Office announcement featuring Bush 43,...
Continue ReadingIn analyzing all the media analysis of 11/7, how could The BAG fail to offer its own two cents of advise to the faded red party.
Continue ReadingWith the Administration's trashing on Tuesday, the media acquired not just the license, but the bursting requirement to see these people for who they are. The result -- and a signifier of the ensuing candor -- are Annie Leibovitz's shots through the fish eye.
Continue ReadingIn October, three weeks before the midterm election, President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld stuck out their chins at the new U.S. Air Force Memorial in Virginia, approaching what the White House was hoping would be another cakewalk.
Continue ReadingLike America's first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in this buoyant image, I'm feeling the joy.
Continue ReadingElection Results: It's Called A Release (Or: <em>What A Difference A Day Makes</em>)
Continue ReadingThis picture, taken in Texas this week, seems more than fitting on a day in which in the country -- in a potential rediscovery of the ballot box -- seems poised to, finally, cut and run from the political abuse of the Bush Administration and the cancerous decrepitutde of...
Continue ReadingSo we have the November surprise -- involving a quasi-kangaroo court dropping a death sentence on Saddam just 48 hours before the U.S. election. The way Saddam has been exploited like a circus monkey, I find the "trinket" shot clearly the day's best visual commentary. Realistically though, here's what...
Continue ReadingA quick trip across the country offers glimpses of Republicans desperately trying to stay alive after Tuesday. A few have welcomed the president as the shiny hood ornament of their campaigns; most others have decided to go it alone.
Continue ReadingThis is the bullet, a 7.62mm armor-piercing slug, that went through the Kevlar helmet, and then the head of Marine Lance Corporal Colin Smith, 19, wounding him critically. The bloodied hand belongs to Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby, 22, a Navy medic assigned to Smith's platoon.
Continue ReadingSo the cavalry are a bunch of jackals? For Crissakes, the vultures aren't descending on the buidling, they're the ones who've been running the place for the past umpteen years!
Continue ReadingIn the last two weeks, the NYT has published two prominent pieces touting the growth prospects of nuclear oblivion.So, what does this have to do with a seven-year-old daughter of a Ukrainian liquidator born with cerebral palsy? The reminder, in the powerful image above by Spanish photographer Lourdes Segade, is...
Continue ReadingDid the White House confuse Halloween with the Fourth of July? Or, Shock and Awe? The BAG wasn't planning on another Bush post so soon, but this pic stopped the presses. I can't wait for your thoughts on this shot from W's Texas campaign trip.
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